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Next-generation plasma-based accelerators can push electron bunches to gigaelectronvolt energies within centimetre distances. The plasma, excited by a driver pulse, generates large electric fields that can efficiently accelerate a trailing…

Beam-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration (PWFA) has emerged as a transformative technology with the potential to revolutionize the field of particle acceleration, especially toward compact accelerators for high-energy and high-power…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 C. A. Lindstrøm , S. Corde , R. D'Arcy , S. Gessner , M. Gilljohann , M. J. Hogan , J. Osterhoff

Wakefield excitation by structured electron bunches in hollow gaps between plasma wedges is studied using three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. The main part of the electron bunch has a triangular current distribution in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Alexander Pukhov , Lars Reichwein

For plasma-wakefield accelerators to fulfil their potential for cost effectiveness, it is essential that their energy-transfer efficiency be maximized. A key aspect of this efficiency is the near-complete transfer of energy, or depletion,…

Relativistic charged-particle beams which generate intense longitudinal fields in accelerating structures also inherently couple to transverse modes. The effects of this coupling may lead to beam break-up instability, and thus must be…

Plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) holds much promise for advancing the energy frontier because it can potentially provide a 1000-fold or more increase in acceleration gradient with excellent power efficiency in respect with standard…

Plasma acceleration has emerged as a promising technology for future particle accelerators, particularly linear colliders. Significant progress has been made in recent decades toward high-efficiency and high-quality acceleration of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 G. J. Cao , C. A. Lindstrøm , E. Adli , S. Corde , S. Gessner

Drive particle beams in linear or weakly nonlinear regimes of the plasma wakefield accelerator quickly reach a radial equilibrium with the wakefield, which is described in detail for the first time. The equilibrium beam state and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 K. V. Lotov

Beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators typically use the external injection scheme to ensure controllable beam quality at injection. However, the externally injected witness bunch may exhibit a non-Gaussian transverse density…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Linbo Liang , Guoxing Xia , Alexander Pukhov , John Patrick Farmer

To mitigate the BBU instability and improve characteristics of accelerated bunches in Dielectric Wakefield Accelerator one can be used the isotropic plasma filling of the transport channel. Here we present the results of analytical and…

Effects of plasma inhomogeneity on self-modulating proton bunches and accelerated electrons were studied numerically. The main effect is the change of the wakefield wavelength which results in phase shifts and loss of accelerated particles.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 K. V. Lotov , A. Pukhov , A. Caldwell

Moderate ion mobility provides a source of damping in the plasma wakefield acceleration, which may serve as an effective remedy against the transverse instability of the trailing bunch. Ion mobility in the fields of the driving and trailing…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 A. Burov , S. Nagaitsev , V. Lebedev

Beam-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration based on external injection has the potential to significantly reduce the size of future accelerators. Stability and quality of the acceleration process substantially depends on the incoming bunch…

Hollow plasma has been introduced into the proton-driven plasma wakefield accelerators to overcome the issue of beam quality degradation caused by the nonlinear transverse wakefields varying in radius and time in uniform plasma. It has been…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-05-10 Y. M. Li , G. X. Xia , Y. Zhao

Preserving the quality of positron beams in plasma-based accelerators, where wakefields are generated in electron filaments, is challenging. These wakefields are characterized by transversely non-linear focusing fields and non-uniform…

In this paper we discuss design considerations and beam dynamics challenges associated with laser-driven plasma-based accelerators as applied to multi-TeV-scale linear colliders. Plasma accelerators provide ultra-high gradients and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 C. B. Schroeder , C. Benedetti , S. S. Bulanov , D. Terzani , E. Esarey , C. G. R. Geddes

Plasma wakefield accelerators (PWFA) represent one of the promising new accelerator concepts that are now being developed intensively for future applications in high-energy physics and industry. Among the unresolved problems of practical…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 G. V. Sotnikov , K. V. Galaydych , P. I. Markov

The quality of electron bunches accelerated by laser wakefields is highly dependant on the temporal and spatial features of the laser driver. Analysis of experiments performed at APOLLON PW-class laser facility shows that spatial…

Plasma-Based Acceleration (PBA) has been demonstrated using laser, electron, and proton drivers. However, significant challenges remain in achieving high efficiency, stable acceleration, and scalable energy gain. Heavy ion beam drivers,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Jiangdong Li , Jiancheng Yang , Guoxing Xia , Jie Liu , Ruihu Zhu , Xiangwen Qiao

Plasma wakefield acceleration holds remarkable promise for future advanced accelerators. The design and optimization of plasma-based accelerators typically require particle-in-cell simulations, which can be computationally intensive and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Xiaoning Wang , Ming Zeng , Dazhang Li , Weiming An , Wei Lu